I shared Crime & the City Solution December 30, 2009 here.
On the selections I'm sharing today are two distinct C&tCS bands, the Rowland S. Howard Crime & the post-Howard Crime.
Crime & the City Solution had first existed in Sydney, then Melbourne, before the band fragmented. Simon Bonney, the band's founder, decamped to London, forming a new version of the band with Mick Harvey (Birthday Party / Bad Seed multi-instrumentalist), the late Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard, Rowland's brother Harry on bass, & Swell Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks. This line-up released four Mute offerings: the two EPs - The Dangling Man & The Kentucky Click as well as two full-lengths - Just South of Heaven (see link above) & Room of Lights.
Right Man, Wrong Man
No Money, No Honey
Hey Sinkiller
Six Bells Chime
Adventure
Untouchable
The Brother Song
Her Room of Lights (for Lisa)
extra tracks -
Rose Blue
The Coal Train
Five Stone Walls
The Wailing Wall
Trouble Come This Morning
The Dangling Man
Simon Bonney decided to take shelter from the intense lens of the London music media by moving to Berlin. Berlin in the Eighties was a thrilling artistic community, filled with interesting collaborations between musicians & artists. Simon Bonney fostered these collaborations & built a new band from fellow ex-pats & the best local talent. Bonney's new Crime featured Mick Harvey, Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft's Chrislo Haas & Gerausch's Thomas Stern, who was brought along by Alex a bit later on when they discovered that Haas, who passed away in 2004, was "a bit erratic, unpredictable and unreliable." Completing the new line-up was Bronwyn Adams, Bonney's wife, who contributed violin & lyrics to the new Crime.
Here's the new Berlin line-up's first release on Mute...
Crime + the City Solution - Shine, Mute CDSTUMM59, 1988.
All Must Be Love
Fray so Slow
Angel
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
Hunter
Steal to the Sea
Home is Far from Here
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain) 12" version
All Must Be Love (early version)
Revisiting
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